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There's no Huawei back now - Biden signs Act that forbids US buyers acquiring kit on naughty list
FCC Commissioner said the act closes the “Huawei loophole” US President Joe Biden has signed The Secure Equipment Act yesterday, legislation that prevents US regulators from even considering the issuance of new telecom equipment licenses for companies deemed security threats - which means the likes of China's Huawei and ZTE .…
Huawei hands its cloud Linux to China's only open source foundation
OpenEuler now an Open Atom Foundation project, China Telecom has released a cut, tech minister loves the idea Huawei has donated the cut of Linux it created to run on its cloud, and silicon, to China's only open source foundation.…
Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it
Chocolate Factory's cross-platform framework seems to struggle to craft efficient desktop software Google's Flutter cross-platform app framework appears to have a thinking problem: in certain situations, Flutter desktop apps consume too much processing power.…
Philippines gov takes down passport application website amid privacy leak fears
Google searches reportedly produce applicants' personal information The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has disabled its online passport application tracker, citing a "data privacy issue" and hinting that information could have leaked.…
What, Uber charges disabled people fees for taking a while to get into their ride? Doesn't seem fair, says Uncle Sam
Plus: Trips now more expensive in the UK to woo new drivers, tackle demand The US government sued Uber this week, claiming the ride-hailing app giant unfairly charges disabled riders waiting fees if they need extra time to get into vehicles.…
Old Microsoft is back: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what
The days of redirecting microsoft-edge: links to a non-Redmond browser are, for now, over Microsoft Windows 11 build 22494 appears to prevent links associated with the Microsoft Edge browser from being handled by third-party applications, a change one developer argues is anticompetitive.…
Dutch newspaper accuses US spy agencies of orchestrating 2016 Booking.com breach
Journalists' book claims company was targeted for Middle Eastern data Jointly US-Dutch owned Booking.com was illegally accessed by an American attacker in 2016 – and the company failed to tell anyone when it became aware of what happened, according to explosive revelations.…
In the spirit of open government, France dumps 9,067 repos online to show off its FOSS credentials
Have a gander at la République's open-source inner workings Le Gouvernement de la République française – the government of France for Anglophones – has published a website containing 9,067 repositories of FOSS software created by 1,022 organisations and groups in the French public sector.…
Now here's HPE with the weather in Northern Europe
Firm to build Cray supercomputer to better grapple with 'new, dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change' Hewlett Packard Enterprise has bagged a contract to build a supercomputer for the United Weather Centres – West, the remit being to help improve the accuracy of forecasts in Northern Europe.…
Palo Alto Networks patches 9.8 severity CVE in popular GlobalProtect product
Arbitrary code execution by unauthenticated attacker? Big oops Updated Palo Alto Networks (PAN) has issued a patch for a CVSS 9.8-rated buffer overflow affecting a VPN component of its widely used firewall software, warning that the flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on unpatched appliances.…
Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 ... this is Linux, right?
Containerised Podman and OpenJDK 17 also highlights of minor release Version 8.5 of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux operating system (RHEL) is out, with updates including .NET 6 and a system role for Microsoft SQL Server, as well as improved container support.…
Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender
Uswitch's survey may surprise you – or not. Depends how much you like Reddit UK-based price comparision and broadband swapping service Uswitch has totted up the figures and come up with a surprising candidate for most outage incidents in 2021.…
MongoDB 5.1 for DBaaS arrives amid questions over on-prem release stability
New features focused on times series and analytics fail to quell concerns over 5.0 bugs MongoDB, the company behind the document non-relational database of the same name, has released its 5.1 update but only as a managed service.…
Freshworks trains sights on startup market as it puzzles over enterprise conundrum
Indian challenger looks to exploit common platform but could struggle to win bigger customers SaaS newcomer Freshworks – said to be challenging Salesforce and ServiceNow – has launched a package aimed at startups and new IT helpdesk tech but is still struggling to get to grips with the enterprise food chain in its IPO year.…
Like nuclear fusion, funding of IT on the basis of revenue generation is just around the corner, Gartner says
Spending up while growth slows, as business app investment leads the charge EMEA – that zone of planet Earth existing only in the heads of business executives – is set to see total IT spending hit $1.3tn in 2022, up 4.7 per cent from 2021, according to Gartner.…
ESA tries listening to a red rover on the Red Planet: How did it go? The sound of silence
Mars Express wanted to demonstrate its relay smarts once again, but space agency mum on progress The European Space Agency (ESA) has made its first attempt to pick up data transmitted by the China National Space Administration's (CNSA) Zhurong rover for relay back to Earth.…
System at the heart of scaled-back £30m Sheffield University project runs on end-of-life Oracle database
Extended support for 11.2.0.4.0 ended nearly a year ago Sheffield University's mission to create a new £30.4m student information management system – which saw its original design dropped last week after years of delay – stumbled on integrating corporate software running on an effectively out-of-support Oracle database.…
UK aims for 'openness and fairness' in its AI Strategy – unless we're talking about favoured contractors
Or the government itself, of course It has been more than a month since the launch of the UK government's AI Strategy which, the authors said, "represents the start of a step-change for AI in the UK," and The Register, for one, has not forgotten.…
Malicious Chrome extensions are bad. But what about nice ones that can be hijacked? This new tool spots them
DoubleX static analyzer is doubleplusgood Security researchers from Germany's CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have developed software to help identify Chrome extensions that are vulnerable to exploitation by malicious webpages and other extensions.…
Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it
Begun, the Metaverse Wars have. And the metaverse will fight Facebook's attempts at domination Column The further we get from the sudden and spectacular pivot-and-rename of Facebook, the more it looks like the most spectacularly ill-conceived business decision of the 21st century.…
Tencent's growth slows as child gamers switch off under new Chinese laws
Founder Pony Ma reassures all he is proactively embracing new regulatory environment even as numbers take on less rosy hues After merrily speeding along for years, Chinese web giant Tencent has slowed to its lowest revenue growth since going public in 2004 - a dip that coincided with China imposing a raft of new regulations on its big internet companies.…
USA signs internet freedom and no-hack pact it's ignored since 2018
Joins 79 nations supporting Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace – China and Russia aren't on the list The United States has signed up for The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace – an international effort to ensure the internet remains free and open, and an agreement to put critical infrastructure off limits to electronic attack by sovereign states and other actors.…
New Zealand spooks say satellite snooping is obsolete – better intel is found elsewhere
Kiwis are done with dishes, and the Five Eyes alliance is cool with it New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) – the nation's signals intelligence and infosec agency – will retire its Waihopai satellite communications interception station because it's no longer needed.…
International Space Station fires rockets to dodge chunk of destroyed Chinese satellite
Meanwhile, next crew of astronauts all set to launch on Thursday The International Space Station performed a short engine burn on Wednesday to avoid potentially hitting a chunk of space junk.…
Epic battle latest: Judge reminds Apple it has 30 days to let apps link out to non-Apple payment systems
Cupertino tells The Reg it will fight on Apple must allow apps in its iOS store to direct users to outside payment systems within the next 30 days, a federal judge in northern California reminded the super-corporation this week.…
What? Apple products need management?! Cupertino intros device management for SMBs
Cloudy tools to enrol users, disperse apps, backed with on-site service Apple has introduced a device management service for small businesses.…
Nvidia open to third parties making custom silicon tuned for CUDA applications
Who's going to be the first to bite? Hint, you may need to be the size of Facebook or Google Software is a top priority for Nvidia, the chip designer has made clear at this week's ongoing GPU Technology conference, and that this continues to influence its hardware development.…
Here's a couple who deserve each other: Facebook links Workplace enterprise offering to Microsoft Teams
Group communication app integration breaks down barriers and whatever Meta, the brand donned by Facebook to launder its past, has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to integrate the Microsoft Teams communications app into its Workplace enterprise social software.…
'Automate or die!' Gartner reckons most biz apps will be developed via low-code by the people who use them
Also: AI is near the 'trough of disillusionment' Gartner analyst Milind Govekar believes that application development is moving to "low code or no code," and software development shifting to "assembly and integration."…
Windows 10 2004 is nearing the end of the road. Time for a Windows 11 upgrade?
Surface Go users need not apply As the monthly Patch Tuesday excitement got under way this week, Microsoft issued a reminder that the first Windows of the pandemic, Windows 10 2004, was due for the chop. An upgrade to Windows 11 is in order, unless one is using Surface hardware bought around that time.…
Microsoft accidentally bricks Insider HoloLens 2 devices
Red faces all round thanks to premature emission Microsoft is all about the metaverse these days if its recent emissions are anything to go by. So it's unfortunate that the company has managed to brick some nerd goggles enrolled in the HoloLens Insider programme.…
Boat biz breaches itself: Brittany Ferries 'fesses up to leaks caused by routine website update
Customers' passport data potentially exposed, says company, promises to carry out password testing It's never good when a boat operator talks of a breach, even if in this case it's a figurative one.…
Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine for distorting competition in price comparison websites
Was going to buy a spider from a pet shop, then realised I could pick one up on the web. Here all week The EU's General Court this morning upheld the record €2.42bn fine imposed on Google in 2017 for violating the European Commission's antitrust laws with the way it treated searches on Google's shopping comparison service.…
Complaints from the GNOME team have caused a System76 maintainer to stop work on Linux desktop development
Case study in 'how not to collaborate with upstream'? A core member of the GNOME team has accused System76 of being "a case study on how not to collaborate with upstream" following confirmation that the Linux PC vendor is working on a new desktop built with Rust.…
Swiss lab's rooftop demo shows sunlight and air can make fuel
Proof of concept produces tiny volume of hydrocarbons, but makes a big point Scientists in Switzerland claim to have proved it is possible to create fuel from air and sunlight in the first field experiment of its kind.…
Stor-a-File hit by ransomware after crooks target SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software
New research says it's Clop's favourite attack method du jour Stor-a-File, a British data capture and storage company, suffered a ransomware attack in August that exploited an unpatched instance of SolarWinds' Serv-U FTP software.…
Ofcom announces plan to protect endangered species – the Great British phone box
BT is getting axe-happy but regulator's scheme could save 5,000 kiosks Grotty, soaked in urine, and plastered with escort ads if the windows haven't already been kicked in – the public phone box is a British institution on its last legs. And yet comms regulator Ofcom has a plan in place to protect the endangered species.…
Google swats away £3bn Safari Workaround ad-tracking cookie lawsuit in Supreme Court victory
Campaigners' case had 'no real prospect of success' Google has successfully fought off a £3bn lawsuit brought in London over ad tracking cookies, beating the Google You Owe Us campaign in the Supreme Court of England and Wales.…
Techies tell BCS: More and richer data required if COP26 climate pledges are to be met
How can you get to net zero without knowing what's generating the nasties? BCS – the Chartered Institute for IT – is the latest to weigh in on the Net Zero debate, with a call for better data on what is generating C0 emissions in the office, at home and in transit.…
Keep calm and learn Rust: We'll be seeing a lot more of the language in Linux very soon
It's another string to your bow Opinion To become a Linux developer, you used to need C as your passport. Now Rust can let you be an OS programmer as well.…
NASA delays crewed moon landing until 2025, citing technical infeasibility
The space agency wants you to know they are still committed to the project NASA has delayed the first Artemis crewed mission to the moon until 2025, rather than the previously planned 2024.…
It started at Pixar. Now it's the Apple-backed 3D file format viewed as HTML of metaverse
Nvidia pushes 30-year-old description language for the internet of the future An open-source file format adopted by Apple, and the origins of which can be traced back 30 years, is getting a fresh look as hype grows around the building of a metaverse without borders.…
Samsung reveals buzzword-compliant DRAM ready for 5G, AI, edge, and metaverses
Smartphone-derived LPDDR5X said to be faster and more miserly than predecessors Samsung has revealed a new variety of DRAM, and probably won buzzword bingo for the year 2021 too.…
Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer
We're guessing it wasn't Fiber Channel, but it would be weirdly cool if it was A federal grand jury has charged a former Broadcom engineer with stealing trade secrets and using them while working at a new employer – a Chinese chip start-up.…
UK Treasury and Bank of England starting to sound serious about 'Britcoin'
Flags any effort to create central bank digital currency as major national infrastructure project The Bank of England and HM Treasury have announced a consultation process that will inform a decision about whether the UK should proceed to design and create a central bank digital currency (CBDC).…
Satellite of love: Space broadband outfit Viasat acquires rival Inmarsat
Promises to keep Inmarsat's commitments to build more stuff in Blighty Satellite broadband providers Inmarsat and Viasat will combine forces.…
Turns out there is something everyone may agree on in Congress: Let netizens use mostly algorithm-lite apps
Dems, Repubs in House, Senate unite for Filter Bubble Transparency Act A proposed bipartisan law that would force tech companies to let netizens view posts and search results free of meddling by mysterious algorithms has gained further support in Congress.…
Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know
Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet US broadband is about to get a major cash injection through the $1.2tr bipartisan infrastructure bill approved by the House of Representatives on Friday.…
Microsoft touts Windows 11 SE: A locked-down OS to give Chromebooks a run for their money in schools
Oh OK, so the kids get a repairable Surface laptop but not us, huh? Microsoft has prepared a version of Windows 11, dubbed Windows 11 SE, primarily for schools and their students, and has crafted a $250 Surface SE laptop to go along with it.…
Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens
iFixit welcomes 'tactical achievement' after iGiant offers vague software fix to Face ID block Apple has said it will stop making life difficult for anyone replacing a broken iPhone 13 screen with a third-party display and wishing to retain Face ID support.…
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